U+11CA6 "𑲦" Marchen Subjoined Letter Zha Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
𑲦
U+11CA6 "𑲦" Marchen Subjoined Letter Zha is a glyph belonging to the Marchen script, which was historically used to write the Zhang-Zhung language, the ancient language of the Bon religious tradition in Tibet. This specific character represents a subjoined form of the letter "Zha," meaning it is designed to attach below a preceding base consonant as a subscript ligature, a common feature in many Brahmic-derived scripts to indicate consonant clusters. As part of the Marchen block encoded in Unicode version 9.0, it serves to preserve and digitize a writing system that is crucial for the study of early Tibetan history and Bonpo texts.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+11CA6 |
| Version Added | 9.0 |
| Name | Marchen Subjoined Letter Zha |
| Block | Marchen |
| General Category | Nonspacing Mark |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Nonspacing Mark |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 𑲦 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 𑲦 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x91 0xB2 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD807 0xDCA6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00011CA6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud807\udca6 |